Home building rebounded this month with a surge in single-family home construction, inducing starts, permits, and completions, signaling newfound confidence in the housing market and economy.

Genworth Mortgage Insurance , a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, Inc., recently announced an exclusive partnership with Roostify, a web and mobile platform that streamlines and accelerates the home buying process.

Despite the mostly stagnant homeownership report, the number of Hispanic buyers entering the market has continued to grow over the last five years. The only homeownership rate to see a spike, Hispanics will likely be the primary driver of new homeowners for the next decade and beyond.

The U.S. banking industry's period of recovery and release have come to a close and significantly higher credit costs lie ahead which will indeed affect these institutions' first quarter earnings.

The revamped rule appears to be weighing heavy on the minds of many in the mortgage industry as is brings about several new data point requirements that must be fulfilled by lenders.

Confidence among home builders has been on a series of ups and downs over the last few months, showing slow, but continued progression in the single-family sector, but they are still faced with concerns about labor and lot shortages.

Fifty-one percent of repeat homebuyers, reported that they experienced unexpected costs, fees, or surprises in their most recent home buying experience, according to a recent survey.

Ernst Publishing Company, a provider of technology and closing cost data information for the real estate and home finance mortgage industries for 26 years, and eLynx, a provider of on-demand compliance services for Data-Validated MortgagesSM, have linked their software systems.

Nationwide Title Clearing (NTC), a post-closing services provider for the nation's largest financial institutions, investors, and servicers, announced that the company will open a new office this month in Dallas, Texas that will include a new data center.

Household holdings of real estate grew much faster than the aggregate amount of mortgage debt outstanding among homeowners year-over-year, ultimately causing home equity to increase.